The physical exam is constituted inside in an important stage of the evaluation process to the child, through which the nurse enriches the information obtained during the interview and it bases the nursing care. At the present time, by means of the nurses growing interest in applying the nursing process in whole its stages, the physical exam has been occupying prominence place, for allowing the nurses to know the its customers' needs, in what says respect to its physical and physiologic aspects, allowing the identification of the nursing diagnoses, besides serving as resource for evaluation effective of the nursing interventions. This study, of bibliographical character, objectified to elaborate a guide for accomplishment of the physical exam in the child, to be used by nurses, during the evaluation process to the child. In him we presented the physical exam in a systematic way, using the sequence cephalic-flow, presenting the possible normal and abnormal discoveries to the we examine the child.
physical exam; child; nurse